Who is Jon Kasbe? All about Busy Philipps’ boyfriend as she recalls viral Dawson’s creek reunion kiss

Busy Philipps recently opened up about the now-viral moment when she was seen kissing Joshua Jackson from the Dawson's Creek reunion event from last month, on September 22. According to People Magazine, Phillipps who is now dating award-winning filmmaker Jon Kasbe, attended the event where she read from the 1998 pilot episode as Tamara Jacobs, while Joshua Jackson read for the part of Pacey Witter.

At the end of the reading, during the event held in support of their former cast member James Van der Beek, who has been diagnosed with cancer, the former on-screen couple were seen sharing a kiss. In her recent interview with People Magazine, published on October 12, Busy Philipps opened about whether she ever had a relationship with Jackson outside the show. She said:

"Josh is hilarious and cracks me up. And yeah, we spent a lot of time making out when we were on that show. We never made out in real life"

More about Busy Philipps' boyfriend, Jon Kasbe, as the actress opens about the viral kissing moment with Joshua Jackson from Dawson's Creek reunion event

Busy Philipps is currently reported to be dating Jon Kasbe, following her divorce from husband, producer Marc Silverstein. According to his IMDB profile, Jon Kasbe is a Australian-Indian director, recognized for his work on the 2022 four-part Hulu documentary, "The Deep End." Not much is known about his early life, but Kasbe, who now lives in New York, is Australian on his mother's side and Indian on his father's side.

He has also directed the 2022 docu-film "My Robot Sophia." His debut documentary, "When Lambs Become Lions," won several prestigious honors, including the Sundance Documentary Fund Award.

According to South China Morning Post, not much is known about his relationship with Busy Philipps, but the couple, who have been spotted at various public spaces together, have an eleven-year age difference. During an interview at the Ninth Annual Carrboro Film Festival, the Emmy-nominated director spoke about how a kidnapping incident involving his grandfather inspired him to pursue filmmaking. He said:

"He was kidnapped, beaten, doused in gasoline to be set on fire because of the work he was doing. I was confused and angry and not sure what to do. It was one of the first times in my life I felt truly convinced about something. A few weeks later, I spent my savings on a flight to India to create a documentary.”

Busy Philipps, who shares who children with her ex-husband, explained in her recent exclusive interview with People Magazine that she and Joshua Jackson had thoroughly rehearsed their parts before the special performance at the Dawson's Creek reunion event. She said:

"We had run through the whole thing the day before. And so we were just doing sound cues and lighting cues onstage the day of. That's all we had time to do."

She also added that originally there was no kiss scene planned between them, but they later decided to include it, considering it would be something the audiences would enjoy. She said:

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"But I know from doing that show that occasionally, when there's a really big character thing where it's two characters kiss or something like that, the crowd goes nuts if you actually do it. Because they're not expecting it. Even Joshua Jackson agreed with her at that time, and said "'I'm in. I think we got to give the people what they want.'"

Busy Philipps infact called out the kiss scene from the Dawson's Creek pilot episode, which depicts a sudent-teacher relationship, saying that it was something "insanely inappropriate" to have as part of a plot.

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